U.S. military satellites in crisis as foreign weapons advance and proliferate

(Associated Press/File)

 

The U.S. military’s satellite communications are facing a crisis, threatened by a growing array of foreign weapons, including cyberattack capabilities, lasers, electronic jammers and anti-satellite weapons, according to a Pentagon study.

An executive summary of the report by the Defense Science Board warns that military satellite communications used for global operations “will be contested by a myriad of effects ranging from reversible to destructive.”

“The estimated and projected electronic threats against satellite communication (satcom) have rapidly escalated in the last few years and will continue to increase in the foreseeable future,” the report says.

WATCH: Russia claims it can WIPE OUT US Navy with ‘ELECTRONIC bomb’ amid WW3 fears

Russia can make this claim because it’s already been used on the U.S. Navy on Barack Obama’s watch… and nothing was done about it.

That’s right. The USS Donald Cook, while performing duties in the Black Sea, was shut off like a television set by a Sukhoi-24.

For more on this, see the following previous post from November of 2014:

What frightened the USS Donald Cook so much in the Black Sea?

Note: Please see the source for the video.

The shocking video shows the potential power of Putin’s military [GETTY/YOUTUBE*GONEWS]

 

RUSSIA has claimed it can disable the entire US Navy using the latest “electronic warfare” technology – as the world braces for conflict.

A recently released Russian news report claims Vladimir Putin’s armed forces can use electronic signal jamming to render missiles, ships and planes completely useless.

In the report, the newsreader said: “Today, our Russian Electronic Warfare troops can detect and neutralise any target from a ship’s system and a radar, to a satellite.